March on!

Okay, I’m lacking the coherence to write much of my own thoughts tonight. Instead, here are a few fun pics from the month of March where we’ve seen snow and sun but spring is coming, I can feel it!

Here is some John Keats for your enjoyment…

Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl

Fill for me a brimming bowl

And let me in it drown my soul:

But put therein some drug, designed

To Banish Women from my mind:

For I want not the stream inspiring

That fills the mind with–fond desiring,

But I want as deep a draught

As e’er from Lethe’s wave was quaff’d;

From my despairing heart to charm

The Image of the fairest form

That e’er my reveling eyes beheld,

That e’er my wandering fancy spell’d.

In Vain! away I cannot chace

The melting softness of that face,

The beaminess of those bright eyes,

That breast–earth’s only Paradise.

My sight will never more be blest;

For all I see has lost its zest:

Nor with delight can I explore

The Classic page, or Muse’s lore.

Had she but known how beat my heart,

And with one smile reliev’d its smart

I should have felt a sweet relief,

I should have felt “the joy of grief.”

Yet as the Tuscan mid the snow

Of Lapland thinks on sweet Arno,

Even so for ever shall she be

The Halo of my Memory.

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